Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library
This book shows you how, even with a tight budget and limited space, you can foster "maker mentality" in your library and help patrons reap the learning benefits of making—with or without a makerspace.

Just because your library is small or limited on funds doesn't mean you can't be part of the maker movement. This book explains that what is really important about the movement is not the space, but the creativity, innovation, and resilience that go along with a successful maker program. All it takes is making some important changes to a library's programs, services, and collections to facilitate the maker mentality in their patrons, and this book shows you how.

The author explains what a maker is, why this movement is important, and how making fits in with educational initiatives such as STEM and STEAM as well as with library service. Her book supplies practical advice for incorporating the principles of the maker movement into library services—how to use small spaces or mobile spaces to accommodate maker programs, creating passive maker programs, providing access to making through circulating maker tools, partnering with other organizations, hosting maker faires, and more. Readers will better understand their instructional role in cultivating makers by human-centered design thinking, open source and shared learning, and implementation of an inquiry approach.

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Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library
This book shows you how, even with a tight budget and limited space, you can foster "maker mentality" in your library and help patrons reap the learning benefits of making—with or without a makerspace.

Just because your library is small or limited on funds doesn't mean you can't be part of the maker movement. This book explains that what is really important about the movement is not the space, but the creativity, innovation, and resilience that go along with a successful maker program. All it takes is making some important changes to a library's programs, services, and collections to facilitate the maker mentality in their patrons, and this book shows you how.

The author explains what a maker is, why this movement is important, and how making fits in with educational initiatives such as STEM and STEAM as well as with library service. Her book supplies practical advice for incorporating the principles of the maker movement into library services—how to use small spaces or mobile spaces to accommodate maker programs, creating passive maker programs, providing access to making through circulating maker tools, partnering with other organizations, hosting maker faires, and more. Readers will better understand their instructional role in cultivating makers by human-centered design thinking, open source and shared learning, and implementation of an inquiry approach.

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Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library

Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library

by Megan Egbert
Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library

Creating Makers: How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library

by Megan Egbert

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Overview

This book shows you how, even with a tight budget and limited space, you can foster "maker mentality" in your library and help patrons reap the learning benefits of making—with or without a makerspace.

Just because your library is small or limited on funds doesn't mean you can't be part of the maker movement. This book explains that what is really important about the movement is not the space, but the creativity, innovation, and resilience that go along with a successful maker program. All it takes is making some important changes to a library's programs, services, and collections to facilitate the maker mentality in their patrons, and this book shows you how.

The author explains what a maker is, why this movement is important, and how making fits in with educational initiatives such as STEM and STEAM as well as with library service. Her book supplies practical advice for incorporating the principles of the maker movement into library services—how to use small spaces or mobile spaces to accommodate maker programs, creating passive maker programs, providing access to making through circulating maker tools, partnering with other organizations, hosting maker faires, and more. Readers will better understand their instructional role in cultivating makers by human-centered design thinking, open source and shared learning, and implementation of an inquiry approach.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440843860
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/18/2016
Pages: 124
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Megan Egbert is district programs manager, Meridian Library District, ID.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Section I Maker Mentality

Chapter 1 What Is a Maker? 3

Characteristics of Making 5

Making versus Tinkering 8

From Consumer to Creator 8

What Is Not Making 11

Chapter 2 Making for Everyone 15

Making for All Abilities 16

Making for All Ages 17

Making Is for Girls 18

Making across Curriculum 21

Chapter 3 Why Making Matters for Individuals 27

Learning through Failure 28

Learning Empathy through Design 30

Maker Empowerment 32

Curiosity 33

Engagement 35

Chapter 4 Why Making Matters for Libraries 37

Entrepreneurs 38

Out-of-School Learning 39

Participatory Culture 40

21st Century Learning Skills 42

Creativity and the Importance of Play 45

Because It Works-Kind Of 46

Section II Creating Makers

Chapter 5 Making in Any Space 51

Small Spaces 52

Mobile Spaces 53

Stealth Programs 54

Pop-up or Dispersed Spaces 56

Making through Circulation 57

Making through Partnerships 58

Chapter 6 Access to Making 61

Access and Visibility 62

Cost 64

Location 65

Policies and Legalities 66

Safety 68

Chapter 7 Teaching Makers 71

Inquiry-based Learning 71

Constructionism 76

Learning Paths 77

Rapid Prototyping 79

Design Process 80

Evaluate Your Programs 82

Chapter 8 Creating a Culture of Makers 85

Allow Staff Time to Make 85

Allow Opportunities for Staff to Share Their Talent 87

Hire or Train the Staff You Need 87

Create a Culture That Celebrates Failure 89

Create a Culture That Celebrates Creativity 90

Share Your Story 92

Conclusion 93

References 97

Index 105

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